This post contains spoilers for "The Shawshank Redemption."
One of the most propulsive aspects of "Shawshank Redemption" is the open question of Andy Dufresne's innocence. Andy's "decidedly inconvenient" luck as he puts it — that he would visit the cabin on the same night his wife and her lover were murdered there, with the same model of gun used to kill them — drives the remainder of the film. By cutting between that night and the courtroom, the opening scenes are cleverly crafted in the...